The browser-based feedhose for the NYT was a hit. 
Lots of people tried it out yesterday, and there were a lot of questions. Hopefully some of them will be answered by today's developments.
For an encore, we decided to add three big streams to the NYT stream:
1. AFP wire photos.
2. Tech news.
3. BBC World Edition.
4. NY Times. (As with yesterday's version.)
When you put the four sources together, it's hundreds of feeds, so the updates are pretty frequent, esp during the workday.
The tech sources weren't just thrown together either. I started with feeds Scoble follows on Twitter (but I went for their RSS feeds) and added some that I follow, and then watched TechMeme for a while to try to figure out who their big sources are. It's a pretty good mix, and it's really something to watch the stories roll through, like yesterday's notice of Apple's press conference next week. The result is something that flows much faster.
Leave the window open on your screen, esp if you have a second monitor as I do, to keep news flowing to your desktop 24 by 7.
Now it may be too much, quite possibly is -- that suggests other user interfaces -- maybe something like Checkbox News. The good news is that Eric has provided the source code, so you get to play too! 
View the source on Eric's page. It's all right there. Can you make something that looks more beautiful? Neither Eric or I are good at fonts or colors, we're plumbing guys. Help us out by making something gorgeous out of this river. Post a link to your experiment in the comments below or send me a link via email. (Address is in the right sidebar on scripting.com.)
Amy Bellinger sees this becoming a widget.
And you can drop down a level, and access this mix through the feedhose, directly. Just add &name=mix to any of the commands I listed in the JSON post. For example:
http://hose.scripting.com/recent?count=5&name=mix
http://hose.scripting.com/recent?name=mix
http://hose.scripting.com/recent?format=json&name=mix
http://hose.scripting.com/?format=json&timeout=3&name=mix
One more thing, Eric's feedhose client now has a cool new url:
http://eric.feedho.se/
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